“I bring three or four," he said. "Any writing I do, I do quickly by hand first. And then as a function of inputting it onto the laptop, I edit as I copy it in. That process works for me.”

Trying to get some productive planning, writing, and editing done on your vacation? Do as Bourdain does and make sure to pack some extra Moleskine notebooks. Oh, what we wouldn't give to get a peek into those idea-filled pages. We have so many questions: What does his handwriting look like? Is he a doodler? Plain, lined, grid? Where does he do his best writing? Pen or pencil?

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